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He taught them how to live and how to die.

— William Somervile

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Source: In Memory of the Rev. Mr. Moore, line 21.
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Hail, blooming Youth!
May all your virtues with your years improve,
Till in consummate worth you shine the pride
Of these our days, and succeeding times
A bright example.

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The bird
That glads the night had cheer'd the listening groves with sweet complainings.

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Hail, happy Britain! highly favoured isle,
And Heaven's peculiar care!

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My hoarse-sounding horn
Invites thee to the chase, the sport of kings;
Image of war, without its guilt.

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Fortune is like a widow won,
And truckles to the bold alone.

For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.

Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns,
* * * * The soul
Of man alone, that particle divine,
Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail.

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Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!
Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spread
O'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,
And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.

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